Fintech firm Stripe has an uncommon method of asking for buyer enter — and Elon Musk thinks it is a “good thought.”
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison acknowledged in a put up on X on Tuesday that the corporate brings in a single buyer to talk for the primary half hour of its administration staff assembly each different week. The person is requested to provide sincere suggestions about Stripe’s merchandise in entrance of 40 of the corporate’s leaders.
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Stripe has loads of different methods to get suggestions, together with responses from a Grievance Submission Kind and emails clients ship to complaints@stripe.com. Nevertheless, Collison famous in his put up that the tactic of getting suggestions in particular person on the biweekly assembly “by some means all the time spurs new ideas and investigations.”
A day after Collison shared Stripe’s suggestions technique on X, Musk replied to the put up and expressed his approval.
“Good thought,” Musk wrote.
Good thought
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 10, 2025
Collison co-founded Stripe in 2010 as a cost processing platform that enables companies to course of bank cards, debit playing cards, and different funds each on-line and in particular person.
In line with Stripe’s 2024 annual letter, half of Fortune 100 firms, together with Nvidia, Comcast, and PepsiCo, use the startup’s expertise to deal with $1.4 trillion in monetary transactions. Stripe additionally handles funds for Amazon, Google, and Shopify.
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Stripe moreover claimed within the annual letter that it was the “income engine of the AI period,” with virtually 80% of the Forbes AI 50, together with Anysphere and Anthropic, utilizing its platform.
The startup was final valued at $91.5 billion in February.
